Annalisa Pelizza
(Università di Bologna e University of Twente)
Mercoledì 9 febbraio 2022, ore 17.00 – 19.00
Stanza virtuale: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent
This lecture introduces the concept of “alterity processing” to account for the simultaneous enactment of individual “Others” and emergent European orders mediated by data infrastructures for migration management. Alterity processing refers to data infrastructures, knowledge practices and bureaucratic procedures through which populations unknown to European actors are translated into “European-legible” identities.
Drawing upon a Science and Technology Studies perspective, the lecture provides empirical evidence and theoretical reflections on the co-production of migrant people and Europe as a polity through the digitization of registration and identification of third-country nationals. It shows how different registration and identification procedures compete to legitimize different chains of actors, data, and metadata as more authoritative than others. Competing procedures have governance implications, as well, with institutional boundaries shifting de facto, if not de jure. In this tension, it is not only the individual Other that is enacted but also specific bureaucratic orders cutting across old and new European actors and distinctive understandings of “Europe.” The lecture draws upon data collected in the context of the “Processing Citizenship” project (ERC StG No 714463, https://processingcitizenship.eu/).
Biografia
Annalisa PELIZZA is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Bologna. Before that, she was Associate Professor at the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department of the University of Twente, where she is now Visiting Professor. Her research focuses on how governance by data infrastructures shapes modern institutions. By studying how data infrastructures entail broader but unnoticed transformations in the modern order of authority, which are buried in technical minutiae, Pelizza’s work brings tools proper of STS analyses to investigate macro political developments. Pelizza was the recipient of several excellence scientific grants and currently leads the “Processing Citizenship” research group (http://processingcitizenship.eu) funded by the European Research Council. The team investigates transnational data infrastructures for migration management as activities of European governance transformation. She is vice-president of STS Italia, elected member of the Board of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), member of the editorial board of Science, Technology and Human Values.
Letture consigliate e link utili
- Processing citizenship: digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory, and Europe? http://processingcitizenship.eu
- Pelizza (2016), Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems, disponibile qui
- Pelizza (2020), Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities, disponibile in OA qui
- Pelizza (2021), Towards a sociomaterial approach to inter-organizational boundaries: How information systems elicit relevant knowledge in government outsourcing, disponibile in OA qui
- Pelizza (2021), Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border disponibile in OA qui
- Pelizza and Van Rossem (2021), Sensing European Alterity. An analogy between sensors and Hotspots in transnational security networks, disponibile qui
- Schot and Skipper (2018), Experts and European transport integration, 1945–1958, disponibile in OA qui